I just watched a few videos of the "muslim" thing on Yahoo. A couple of points. The first, it doesn't really look like anything, to be honest. It isn't nearly approaching "clear as day". And even if it did really look like a person with a turban, there are other cultures that wear them aside from Arabs.
Besides, we all know it's the Jews that run banking, right?
As far as the driving test goes, I'm not sure what the current Canadian demographics are, but perhaps there are a sizable Arabic population that would make having it in a third language make sense? This is pure speculation based on the availability of having Spanish tests in a lot of US states.